I have the free version of the app, and I like it for the most part, especially the simplicity, and the ability to attach photos to items (for receipts). It does not connect to my particular bank, but I am okay with that. Edit: Originally I had what turned out to be a sync issue which caused very high background data use. But I uninstalled and reinstalled (with the latest update as well) and it appears to be fixed now. Thank you, Spendee support, for your help.
Reviews for Spendee: Budget App & Tracker
Could be the best budget admin app out there but it's so buggy!! I can't believe for the life of me that none of my transactions sync after the new update. It just shows an error message saying "Something went wrong. Please, try again later". My wife can't see my transactions nor I see hers in our shared wallet.
I've seen a couple apps do this and I'm confused by it - you can only have 2 budgets and from I can tell, that means you just say "i can only spend this much money per month". I'm used to setting a budget per category 'this much/month on food/phone/car etc.' Was excited to see it have an option to link to banks as well as support for photos (which I'd use for receipts to confirm WHAT I bought) but didn't get that far after being stumped by the limited budgets.
I loved this app and used it for about a year. After looking at many many budgeting apps, this one was perfect for how I recorded my transactions and budgeted, but in the recent update I can no longer use formulas and calculate while adding a transaction. Suddenly it's that much worse for me and I find I no longer use it. I still recommend because it works well if it has the features you want, but I will be uninstalling myself. The search continues!
I spent 2-3 hours entering information about my various bank and retirement accounts and recent transactions. The very next day when I opened the app, I was told to pay for subscription or choose just one of the accounts I had entered to keep. I liked the app but am very disappointed that it wasn't up front about how many accounts one could follow in the free app. Huge waste of my time.
Would definitely have sprung for paid version to get the sharing access, but need to have a way to verify/clear transactions and do some sort of reconciliation (like a checkbook). I'm running household accounts in multiple currencies that are from banks that don't connect to online services, so lack of reconciliation is a dealbreaker. Like the graphing and website functionality.
Spendee is far and away the best budget app for our purposes. It syncs quickly to the cloud so my wife and I can share transactions. It's easy to use. It allows creating "wallets" for when you just want to track some transactions without scraping data from your bank account. This is extremely useful for us, because credit card transactions often take days or even weeks to be registered as complete. This way we can get those points and make sure we don't spend too much!
I wish I could create a budget that included multiple wallets into one set amount. I also would like to be able to modify the wallet's beginning balance, even ones connected to an account. It than that, I really like the app. This is the only one I've found that allows me to customize my budget the way I want it, and yet also sync with my credit card spending.
I used this app for a while, it was great, I got a subscription. Then it stopped working and could no longer access my info at all. I stopped using it for a year due to this flaw and now I am being charged again. I went to cancel and the help center had "we can't help you 🤷‍♂️" (complete with shrug emoji). I ended up finding and cancelling it. I still do not recommend an app that is inconsistent like this. I really wish it was useable though.
Great app but there seems to be a bug with entering a GPS location. Once I hit the submit button it will duplicate my entry several times so it seems like I spent the same amount at a location multiple times. When I try and delete the duplicate transaction, it will delete all transactions associated with that specific entry. My fix was to just type in the location under the note portion and to not put a GPS location on the entry.